Rating and comments for Jahshaka

A promising project. While still a bit shaky, shows promise to give those expensive programs a run for their money (but not yours). Looking forward to V3!!!

A little shaky? VERY shaky.
Don't be fooled by the flashy looking website!

It has a baffling interface (and I'm used to Combustion and Flint, on which it was modelled), constantly crashes and has limited support on the forums.

My advice to anyone considering using this app, especially if you are used to after effects or combustion, WAIT UNTIL VERSION 3 (which in real terms should really be called version 0.3). They're promising this to be the stable version built on a new code base.

For us pixel monkeys, the sad truth is that at present there is no open source alternative to After Effects.

The closest you get is Blender.

*sigh*

Very very buggy. The developers have tried to implement far too many features. The GUI isn't very intuitive either. Perhaps it will mature over time but right now stay away from it.

While the interface is baffling at first, after you figure it out, its a decent peice of software. Yes, it does crash, but usually when you are trying to perform an action in an obtuse way. It could be that the Windows port is unstable, but it has more than sufficed for me.

This thing needs to stop being a jack of all trades and try to be good at ONE thing: special effects. I use this on a Mac and it;s just as weird as it is on Windows.

great *looking* kind of until you try to use it. ui is such a challenge for some developers. still I'm sure they'll get it sooner or later.

Looks good but when I actually tried to use the program it was horrible. Unusable. Crashed so much it wouldn't even start. It's a shame because if the damn thing was actually stable it might be able to compete with After Effects.

it won't even open for me. :(

I think project died long ago. Pity, it looked very promising.

Jahshaka is dead. However, Cinefx has risen from the ashes!
From their website:
"We are pleased to announce that the jahshaka project has
been reinvented as Cinefx and is getting back to its roots
and goal of building the high end visual effects tools it set
out to deliver!
Cinefx is building on the new Openlibraries 5.0, the
Cineplay Core and is using Jahplayer as its foundation
moving ahead."

Interface was very baffling. I am quite good on computers and
couldn't use it.